For full coverage of business developments in Iran and the Middle East, see MEED US Secretary of State John Kerry said today that Iran has shipped more than 25,000 pounds of low-enriched nuclear material, including everything enriched to 20 per…
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IMF forecasts Iran will be fastest-growing Gulf economy
For full coverage of business developments in Iran and the Middle East, see MEED The IMF Article IV report published today called for the Iranian government to continue counter-inflationary policies, fiscal re-balancing and job-creation measures but forecast the Islamic Republic…
Iran aims for WTO membership
Iran’s Industry, Mining & Trade Minister Mohammad Reza Nematzadeh For full coverage of business developments in Iran and the Middle East, see MEED Industry, Mining & Trade Minister Mohammad Reza Nematzadeh said today that Iran is preparing to join the…
End of Iran sanctions could come in weeks
IAEA director-genera Yukiya Amano For full coverage of business developments in Iran and the Middle East, see MEED Director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Yukiya Amano said today that the IAEA Board of Governors has closed the…
IAEA approval of Iran final assessment to be unanimous
The International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA’s) 35-member board of governors is expected unanimously to agree on ending an investigation into Iran’s possible development of nuclear weapons and endorse a report that the Islamic republic has adhered to conditions in the…
IAEA Iran review board meeting opens tomorrow morning
For full coverage of business developments in Iran and the Middle East, see MEED The special meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA’s) board of governors that will consider the agency’s final assessment of past and present outstanding issues regarding…
Iran approves joint field development budget
For full coverage of business developments in Iran and the Middle East, see MEED Iran’s cabinet today approved issuing government-guaranteed bank bonds worth IR 100,000bn for the development of oil and gas fields jointly-owned with neighbouring countries, Fars Newsagency has…
Air France to resume Tehran flights in 2016
For full coverage of business events in Iran and the Middle East, see MEED Air France announced today that it will resume direct flights from Paris to Tehran in April in a further sign that EU nations are preparing for…
Iran in talks about gas pipeline to India
Proposed energy pipelines from the Gulf to India For full coverage of business developments in Iran and the Middle East, see MEED National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC) managing director Alireza Kameli said Iran is negotiating about a subsea pipeline delivering…
Iran to rejoin SWIFT soon
For full coverage of business developments in Iran and the Middle East, see MEED Central Bank of Iran governor Valiollah Seif said today that Iran is working on a plan to rejoin the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT),…